Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 791
EAN: 9783836500234
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 383650023X
Label: TASCHEN America Llc
Manufacturer: TASCHEN America Llc
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 592
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc
Studio: TASCHEN America Llc

The complete works of Ingmar Bergman: an homage to one of the most esteemed film and theater artists of all time, began in cooperation with Bergman himself and made with full access to his archives.
Before his death in 2007, Bergman gave co-publishers TASCHEN and Max Ström complete access to his archives at The Bergman Foundation, and permission to reprint his writings and interviews, many of which have never been seen outside of Sweden. Picture researcher Bengt Wanselius, who was Bergman's photographer for 20 years, scoured photo archives all over Sweden, discovered previously unseen images from Bergman's films, and selected unpublished images from the personal archives of many photographers. Text editor Paul Duncan gathered a team of Bergman experts as contributing editors Peter Cowie and Bengt Forslund (for film/TV), and Ulla Åberg & Birgitta Steene (for theatre) who have researched and written a narrative that, for the first time, will combine all of Bergman's working life in film and theater. Such is the depth of Bergman's writings that most of the story is told in his own words. This book also features a new introduction by Bergman's close friend, actor and collaborator Erland Josephson, as well as a DVD full of rare and previously unseen material, and a film strip from Fanny and Alexander.

The publishers have been given complete access to the files and archives of the Swedish Film Institute, Svensk Filmindustri, Sveriges Television, and the Royal Dramatic Theatre, as well as many other institutions, publishers, and newspapers, making this the most complete book ever published on Ingmar Bergman.

Features include:
- Introduction by Erland Josephson
- Over 1000 scenes from the movies, shots of the director at work, film posters, and photos of Bergman's workbooks and scripts, with explanatory captions
- Rare and previously unseen images
- Rare texts by Bergman as well as interviews, many of which have never been published outside of Sweden
- Informative texts by Bergman's collaborators
- Texts by acknowledged Bergman experts Ulla Ã…berg, Peter Cowie, Bengt Forslund, and Birgitta Steene
- A chronology, filmography, and bibliography

- Special bonuses

a film strip from a copy of Fanny and Alexander (1982) that has been played on Bergman s own film projector in each book
a DVD containing over 110 minutes of new and rare documentary footage:
Bergman s On Set Home Movies (18 mins, with commentary by Marie Nyreröd); Behind the scenes of Autumn Sonata (20 mins); An Image Maker (32 mins), behind the scenes of The Image Makers by Bengt Wanselius; and A Video Diary (44 mins) assistant director Torbjörn Ehrnvall s video diary from Bergman s last film, Saraband, in which Bergman talks about his life and work.

Customer Rating:
Summary: A brilliant look at brilliance
Comment: Like the STANLEY KUBRICK ARCHIVES that Taschen put out before it, the INGMAR BERGMAN ARCHIVES gives us a fascinating look into the creative mind of one of the world's cinematic geniuses. Full of material that I've never seen before (and I'm a Bergman fanatic!), this heavy tome has it all--stills, background, script excerpts, chronologies, you name it. And the souvenir film strip from "Fanny & Alexander" and the DVD of Bergman's home movies are icing on the cake! Worth every penny.

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